Everyone has heard the urban legends of kids on Halloween eating apples with razor blades, chocolates laced with strychnine or LSD... Fact is it has NEVER happened anywhere in the USA... EVER! So the Bobtown politicos outlawing Halloween to keep the kids safe is hardly a needful law but it most certainly deprives kids of something special. No doubt we will be seeing more of this stupidity in the near future....
As far as the ten most dangerous foods story... It was all the rage this week. All of a sudden I could not read the news without being assaulted by stories telling me that potatoes were unsafe, Tuna was a near death experience and eating ice cream was suicidal but the fact of the matter is NOT SO! Take a moment and read Casual Kitchen for the real story. Just as an aside, it's interesting this came out while the meat industry is getting nailed yet again with bad press over the sad story of Stephanie Smith and its spin-offs... Just a coincidence?
We seem to be living in an age of fear and the powers that be like it just fine. If we are all in terror of everything we are easy to control.
Eat spinach...
Take your kids trick or treating...
Rant over!
1 comment:
Thank you for the link!
I felt like people really needed a dose of perspective on that Ten Most Dangerous Foods report, and once you look at the real numbers, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (the organization that put out the study) really lost a lot of credibility in my view. Here's to the truth!
Dan
Casual Kitchen
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